Match Each Definition to the Corresponding Term

Match each definition to the corresponding term
-Moral reasoning

A) The ability to feel guilt or shame, or feelings associated with a guilty or clear conscience; indicates whether behavior was appropriate and guides one to choose appropriate or desired behaviors
B) Requiring certain behaviors from children; having high expectations for children that are reasonable and supported with encouragement and optimism
C) Appropriate actions or behaviors that serve some productive or positive function in a child’s activities and patterns of interactions
D) Behavior that is out of place, immature, unproductive, or socially inept
E) Inappropriate, troublesome, and sometimes unsafe behavior
F) The process by which people learn to monitor their own actions and decide whether a tempting behavior is the right or wrong thing to do
G) Perspective in which sensitivity to others, loyalty, responsibility, self-sacrifice, and peacemaking reflect interpersonal involvement and caring and ethical and moral decision making
H) Thinking processes that guide people in deciding what is or is not moral behavior
I) The ability to distinguish right from wrong and to act accordingly
J) Perspective in which integrity tends to be the dominant moral compass for making autonomous, independent, and self-oriented ethical and principled decisions
K) Inappropriate or self-destructive behavior not serving any positive or productive function in a child’s life
L) The process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from day-to-day events to major life concepts; because children learn best from “hands-on” experiences, we invite them to think and talk about each inappropriate behavior so they will be able to figure out larger moral concepts.